“There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.”

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”

“As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.”

“Although your past has been painful devastating or cruel God has promised to be a Restorer and a Redeemer. He says He will “give us gladness in proportion to our former misery ” and “replace the evil years with good”.”

“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”

“We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foriegn people. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.”